Domashna rabota (predilki) (1905) User Reviews

What Do You Do All Day When I'm At Work?

[boblipton · 5/10 · 19 November 2021]

Here's another actuality from the Manaki brothers; this one shows women hard at work spinning and carding and gallumphing around a yard to get their work done.

The other reviewer thinks that this is not a successful piece. The Manakis, as the first film makers in their neck of the woods, seemed mostly interested in documenting how their subjects dressed and acted and performed. Now, almost a dozen decades later, here I am, looking at their work, commonplaces for the day, but now very foreign.

One of a kind, but not really a success

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 8 December 2018]

"Domashna rabota (predilki)" is a film from the year 1905, so it should not surprise anybody really that here we have a black-and-white silent movie. This was directed by the Manaki Brothers and while I think I know a lot and have seen many very old short films, I have never come across this pretty prolific duo from Macedonia. The latter country is not one in general that you'd associate with the early days of filmmaking. It was really all about America, France and Great Britain, maybe Spain back then, but yeah it seems like thanks to these two filmmakers Macedonia was actually among the most remembered filmmaking countries from Europe at that point if we take a look back now. This is one of their most known works. It is very simple and there is really no plot. In minimally under a minute we see women working hard and their dresses may not be like something we know today from female workers, or maybe it does look like that still in Macedonia today? I am not sure. But it is certainly not the mostg practical outfit. Yeah that's basically all one could say about this one. There is a certain historic value thhat is undeniable, also with the female cast, so it's not a bad film or anything, but yeah nothing really interesting happens and it is also inferior to other short films from the very early 20th century. i give it a thumbs-down and suggest you skip the watch unless you are a film historian or related to any of the people working on this film in front of and behind the camera.